Friday

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📅 Friday, March 1, 2024

📅 Saturday, March 2, 2024

📅 Sunday, March 3, 2024

International students’ choices

Lg. Dev. ICC 106
Chair: Laura Zalazar

3:30 Yunjung Yunie Ku
Study abroad sojourners and working holidaymakers: Who chooses to go abroad and why?

4:00 Ying Shen & Hailing Wang
Understanding gap year decisions among Chinese international graduate students in the United States

4:30 Esha Mukherjee

Impact of Arabic dialect integration in L2 classrooms on the development of sociolinguistic competence during study abroad

Online Study Abroad

Lg. Dev. ICC 115
Chair: Sheri Anderson

3:30 Sara Castro Cantú, Walther Glödstaf & Elizabeth King
The sociolinguistics of study abroad in an online community: The case of a public university in the Midwest

4:00 Clare Wright, Ying Peng & Chen Yang
“Happy to chat, but far from perfect”: student experiences of Chinese language learning after a Virtual Year Abroad

4:30 Iñigo Yanguas & Luis Cerezo
Exploring the influence of virtual guided conversations on L2 speaking skills, motivation, and their viability as substitutes for study abroad experiences

Panel 1 — Cultural diplomacy: the role of the embassies and the US Department of Education.

ICC 107
Convenor: Dr. Fernández González

3:30-4:00 Jesús Fernández González & Jesús Cerdá
Fancy teaching English in Spain: NALCAP is the answer

4:00-5:00 Round table showcasing the role of embassies in promoting international education and education abroad.

Moderator: Glória Alhinho, Camões, I.P. Lecturer
Brazil: Iberê Uchôa de Azevedo Barbosa, Education Counselor
France: Jean-Christophe Dissart Higher-Education Attaché
Germany: Jacob Comenetz, Senior Cultural Affairs Officer
Japan: Taichi Kaneshiro, Education Counselor
Spain: Jesús Fernández, Education Counselor
US Department of Education: Jennifer Hong, International Affairs